During the night of February 19/20, 1942, the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) sent a squadron towards the island of Bali to investigate a Japanese naval presence. The Imperial ...
As the fighting on Saipan intensified, individual acts of courage began to emerge across the battlefield. Among the soldiers ...
Gauging an untested opponent: U.S. perceptions of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1918-1941 -- Dismantling the "lesser foe" and the "superior enemy" images, December 1941 to early 1943 -- The elusive ...
A single torpedo salvo from I-19, often called one of the most damaging in submarine warfare history, singlehandedly crippled an entire carrier task force. Commissioned in the early days of World War ...
Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for defeating the Americans and their allies. Japan’s role in the Second World War ...